Torrential rains in the Philippines cause flood waters to reach 6.5 feet (2 meters) high, the competition at the Summer Olympic Games stays strong, a German art installation of equine excrement plops down in front of a museum in Berlin and more in today’s daily brief.

Residents wade through floodwaters as another looks down from a rooftop in Marikina City, Metro Manila. Rescuers rushed to reach trapped residents across the Philippine capital on Tuesday, as torrential rains triggered severe flooding. Flood waters reached up to two metres (6.5 feet) in the village of Tumana in Marikina City, an eastern suburb of metropolitan Manila, where some residents were stranded in their homes. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)

Chotu, 14, carries recycled mustard oil tin containers from a roadside workshop in Kolkata. India’s industrial output grew at a slower pace in June, hobbled by weak investment at home because of policy inaction and a drop in export orders from the United States and Europe, a Reuters polls showed on Tuesday. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

Athletes dive as they begin to compete in the men’s triathlon final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at Hyde Park. (Olivia Harris/Reuters)

Visitors walk past one of four piles of fake blue horse manure outside the Neue Nationalgalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany. The four piles are an art installation by artist Martin Gostner titled “The Oriel of the Blue Horses” that refers to the Expressionist painting “The Tower of the Blue Horses,” which has been missing since it was confiscated by the Nazis in 1937. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Two men hang onto a basketball hoop in floodwaters after a river overflowed in Manila caused by torrential rains across the capital. At least five people were killed and seven were missing as torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill, with floodwaters covering half the sprawling city, officials said. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

Belarus’ Ioseb Chugoshvili rests on mate after being defeated by Sweden’s Johan Euren for the bronze medal on the Men’s 120Kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the ExCel venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

The newly elected chairperson of the African Union Commission, South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (L), greets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) at the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria. Clinton is on an official visit to South Africa to consolidate existing bilateral political and economic relations between South Africa and the United States. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters stand amongst burnt trees after the passage of a wildfire at the National Park of Garajonay, on the Spanish canary island of La Gomera. A wildfire raged on August 6 on Spain’s Canary Island of La Gomera which burnt down several homes and raced through a national park housing a rare subtropical forest, officials said. Deep ravines made it difficult to fight the blaze, which erupted on Saturday and has affected 3,100 hectares (7,400 acres) of land, including 350 hectares, or nine percent, of the Garajonay national park, a World Heritage Site. (Desiree Martin/AFP/Getty Images)

The Union Flag and the rainbow stripes of a world champion cyclist are painted on the fingernails of Britain’s Laura Trott ahead of her women’s track cycling ominium 3km individual pursuit race at the Velodrome during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

A 7-day-old unnamed Siamang Gibbon weighing 170 grams is nursed by his mother Jamby at the safari park and zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel. The Siamang Gibbon is found mainly on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the Malaysian peninsula. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

A Bangladeshi child lifts shoe boxes at a factory in Dhaka. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations with 40 percent of its 144 million people living on less than one dollar a day. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

A man carries his bicycle through a flooded street in Quezon City, suburban Manila. Half of Manila was under water and 250,000 people fled their homes on August 7 as torrential rain paralysed the city, sweeping away houses, stranding residents on rooftops and triggering a landslide. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

A male Barasingha deer pup rests at the swamp deer enclosure at the zoo in Berlin. The pup was born on June 24, 2012. The Barasingha is a deer species that is threatened to be extinct. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)

China’s Qin Kai performs a dive during the men’s 3m springboard preliminary round at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Ivory Coast’s special forces march near the presidential palace in Abidjan during celebrations marking the 52nd anniversary of the country’s independence from France. Ivory Coast’s government on August 7 accused fighters loyal to ex-President Laurent Gbagbo of perpetrating deadly attacks on August 6 that killed 10 soldiers and rattled fragile reconciliation efforts. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)

Javelins are seen in front of the Olympic flame during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists – their bodies painted in gold, silver and bronze to resemble olympic prize medals – hold up a banner during a demonstration in New Delhi. The activists championed the benefits of a vegan diet during their protest. (Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)

(L-R) Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester and Laura Bechtolsheimer of Great Britain celebrate with their gold medals during the medal cerermony for the Team Dressage on Day 11 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Greenwich Park in London, England. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Street entertainers sit in a bath tub and blow bubbles as they perform on the Royal Mile to promote their shows during in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festivals in the world; established as an alternative to the International Festival also held in August, and celebrates it’s 66th anniversary this year. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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